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PICTURE – Australopithecus sediba – The Face of your ancestor
Apr 22nd
Australopithecus sediba is a long awaited “missing link” that further reinforces the current knowledge about the harsh days our dads and moms had to endure for us to be born, and wonder at the beauty, order, indifference, and redness in tooth and claw that mother nature let’s befall upon its sons and daughters, just because it can.
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Beautiful NGC 2442 Galaxy! PIC
Apr 16th
In this image obtained with The Hubble Space Telescope you can observe NGC 2442 Galaxy located 50 million light-years away and having an estimated diameter of 75,000 light-years; you can easily infer the hook like appearance of the two galactic spiral arms, the young blue star clusters and the reddish star forming regions, all these surrounding the yellowish central core of the galaxy that is populated by a concentration of older stars.
